enxebre

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Galician

Enxebre ("genuine")

Etymology

From *ex-separe, from Latin separ (separate, different).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

enxebre m or f (plural enxebres)

  1. genuine, characteristic; pure-bred
    Synonym: castizo
    • 1876, O tío Marcos da Portela:
      é necesario que sepiades que eu son un gallego enxebre; tan enxebre cal os do sigro dazasete, que gastaban monteira
      You mast know that I am a genuine Galician; as genuine as the ones form the seventeenth century, when they wore monteira
  2. unmixed

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “parar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos